Much Dewchurch ( cy, Llanddewi Rhos Ceirion) is a village and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
in
Herefordshire
Herefordshire () is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It is bordered by Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthsh ...
, England. The village lies about south of
Hereford. The parish includes the hamlet of
Kivernoll and part of the village of
Wormelow.
The Old Vicarage has stood since the 17th century, and includes a plaque of the number of vicars that served the parish in 1665. Other buildings of note are the pub which still has civil war
musket damage on the wooden walls inside.
The Grade I listed
Norman
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Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
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square-towered church, dedicated to St David, dates to the 12th century. A
Victorian extension to the north
transept
A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In cruciform churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building wi ...
was built in the high neo-gothic revival period. Inside is a memorial bas-relief to the Biddulph family, lords of the manor.
The
Steiner Academy Hereford
The Steiner Academy Hereford is a Steiner-Waldorf Academy school in Much Dewchurch near Hereford, Herefordshire, UK. It opened in September 2008 based at the earlier Hereford Waldorf School and is the first publicly funded Steiner-Waldorf scho ...
is at the centre of the village, close to and south of the church.
Large estates in the area include Bryngwyn Manor () and
The Mynde (), both lying south of the village. Bryngwyn Manor is a Victorian Gothic manor house constructed in 1868 by
F. R. Kempson for
Sir James Rankin, later MP for
Leominster
Leominster ( ) is a market town in Herefordshire, England, at the confluence of the River Lugg and its tributary the River Kenwater. The town is north of Hereford and south of Ludlow in Shropshire. With a population of 11,700, Leominster i ...
.
The Mynde, a Grade I-listed building, was an ancestral home of the Pye family.
Walter Pye was Attorney General in the reign of Charles I. The house was acquired by the
Duke of Chandos
The Dukedom of Chandos is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England. First created as a barony by Edward III in 1337, its second creation in 1554 was due to the Brydges family's service to Mary I during Wyatt's rebellion, wh ...
, who sold the estate to the Symons family in 1729.
References
External links
*
The Much Dewchurch Society website
Villages in Herefordshire
Civil parishes in Herefordshire
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